Plugin is too old, please update to a more recent version, or set ANDROID_DAILY_OVERRIDE environment variable to

Question

Just like CommonsWare suggested, make sure you have Gradle 2.2.1+ (the latest is 2.3).

Make sure you upgrade your Android Studio but here are the "plugins" that need to be updated:

Top build.gradle:

Change:

classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:1.1.0-rc1'

To:

classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:1.1.3' // latest 1.5.0

App build.gradle:

Change:

compile 'com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:21.0.0'
compile 'com.android.support:cardview-v7:21.0.0'

To:

compile 'com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:22.0.0' // latest 23.1.1
compile 'com.android.support:cardview-v7:22.0.0' // latest 23.1.1

Gradle: https://gradle.org/downloads

Always check the Android SDK Manager for the latest revisions:

Android Build Tools Plugin: http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/new-build-system

Android Support Libraries: http://developer.android.com/tools/support-library/features.html

To view the latest plugin releases, view the Bintray Jcenter page directly: https://bintray.com/android/android-tools/com.android.tools.build.gradle/view.

Solution (Updated: 24-may-2016): Change build.gradle (project)

buildscript {
repositories {
    jcenter()
}
dependencies {
    classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:X.X.X-lastVersionGradle'
    classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:X.X.X-lastVersionGServices' // If use google-services

    // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
    // in the individual module build.gradle files
}

X.X.X-lastVersionGradle: For example: 2.1.0

X.X.X-lastVersionGServices: For example: 3.0.0 (support Firebase Analytics)

Note: if you're using the google-services plugin has to be the same version (if there)

Warning!! -> 2.2.0-alpha throws Unsupported major.minor version 52.0 if you don't use java JDK 8u91 and NetBeans 8.1

As a side note, I have been getting the same error in completely unrelated situation - after my system clock year setting has been changed (i.e. 2015 -> 2016); changing the clock back to the correct one solved the issue.

_{Note 1: I'm posting this mainly because I had the exactly same error message, but the working solution proven to be different than just updating the plugin's version (as posted by Jared Burrows).}

_{Note 2: using}

classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:+'

_{can make the plugin version default to newest one. Bear in mind that your build may break on API changes (and is, for that very reason, discouraged by Android API docs), so use this at your own risk only if you're constantly updating the version anyway.}

Just in case someone is struggling with this, in my case I'm using Gradle 1.4 beta 1 and I NEED to keep it. So in order to make Android Studio works go to the terminal and run this:

launchctl setenv ANDROID_DAILY_OVERRIDE <your-value-on-error-message>

Restart Android Studio and the project will build again.

Kudos to UPDATE 2 here: https://emmanuelbernard.com/blog/2012/05/09/setting-global-variables-intellij/

You can always check the latest gradle plugin version here: https://bintray.com/android/android-tools/com.android.tools.build.gradle

So as of today you should use:

classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.2.2'

accordingly.

Replace your class path with something ambiguous like this. Its a solution and it works but it may not be a good solution.

classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:+'

The best way is replacing the + with the latest version of gradle

Check the latest version of Gradle Plugin Here:

You should change this in dependencies of app settings

buildscript {
repositories {
    jcenter()
}
dependencies {
    classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:[PLACE VERSION CODE HERE]'

}

}